Author: GEORGE SMART after
Title: The Earth Stopper.
Description: Burgis & Barfoot, 1814. Etching and aquatint, 280 x 360 mm. margins chipped and torn, wear to the text with loss, a poor copy of a scarce print. Below the title: 'The business of an Earth Stopper, the Night previous to a Days Sport, is to stop up the Fox's Earth whilst he is out Feeding&mdash>The above gentle Swain is supposed to be on his way Home, when by a sudden turn of the Lane, he is brought plump upon what he conceives to be nothing more or less than the Devil, but which in fact is a simple Sweep & his Dickey, vide Beckford on Fox Hunting.' Reverse image of the British Museum version [1935,0522.7.20]

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